How to Use unabridged in a Sentence

unabridged

adjective
  • To read the unabridged story, go here.
    — Jeff St. John, USA Today, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Maybe Scorsese could even release the unabridged set as a stand-alone.
    — Robert Christgau, Rolling Stone, 3 Mar. 2025
  • Gabriel Gorodetsky’s edition — abridged and unabridged — is a work for the ages.
    — New York Times, 11 Jan. 2018
  • Get ready to hear Britney Spears’ unabridged side of the story.
    — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 21 Feb. 2022
  • Voters would be winners by hearing unabridged arguments from both sides.
    — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Below are their unabridged answers, which were each limited to 100 words.
    — oregonlive, 4 May 2022
  • Danes’ unabridged audiobook spans 13 hrs and 32 minutes.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 24 June 2026
  • The sight of the word sent me straight to the unabridged dictionary to find the precise English equivalent.
    — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 16 Nov. 2020
  • This is an unabridged assortment of Manchester United memes from the last week.
    — SI.com, 24 Sep. 2019
  • Janice limply heaves the thick unabridged dictionary into the metal trash can at the corner of Vandam and crosses the street.
    — Miles Marshall Lewis, The Root, 18 Mar. 2018
  • My family’s one and only hard cover was an unabridged dictionary that weighed about 1,000 pounds.
    — Beverly Beckham, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Apr. 2018
  • Meanwhile, the Dune novel is also available as an unabridged audiobook for $30 (reg.
    — Rudie Obias, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Apr. 2024
  • And maybe, as Murakami has requested, his early works will one day be made available in English unabridged.
    — Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, The Atlantic, 11 Sep. 2020
  • This voluminous work is so scandalously absurd that no unabridged English version is in print today.
    — Yoram Hazony, WSJ, 6 Apr. 2018
  • Production is nearly wrapped with over 2,000 recording hours logged to date to create these unabridged adaptations.
    — James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Production wrapped with over 2,000 recording hours logged to create unabridged adaptations.
    — Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Perhaps the greatest contribution Ford makes is to offer her story — written in the most lively and lucid prose — in its most raw and unabridged form.
    — Washington Post, 25 June 2021
  • Meanwhile, Planet of the Apes novel is also available as an unabridged audiobook for $15 (reg.
    — Rudie Obias, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 May 2024
  • Whether the principles of the Declaration, abridged or unabridged, endure is a question that only the course of human events will determine.
    — Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
  • Those passages were censored by her father before the diary was first published in 1947 but became available in more recent unabridged editions.
    — Fox News, 16 May 2018
  • The revision of Merriam’s unabridged masterpiece was abandoned.
    — Stefan Fatsis, The Atlantic, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Meanwhile, The Zone of Interest novel is also available as an unabridged audiobook for $19 (reg.
    — Rudie Obias, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Huckleberry Finn, on the other hand, exists in over 30 unabridged versions and has attracted admirable readers and only a few bunglers.
    — Dallas News, 20 Aug. 2019
  • Deep in the forests of northwestern Jamaica, a secluded cave has sheltered an unabridged account of the environment since the early Bronze Age.
    — Richard Kemeny, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Jan. 2020
  • Her mother, a former schoolteacher with a love of language, kept an unabridged Random House dictionary on an antique high chair, setting it outside the dining room for ease of access.
    — Harrison Smith, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Aug. 2022
  • Just a presumably first-rate, uncluttered, purely dramatic interpretation of a timeless, bona-fide classic, complete and unabridged.
    — John Anderson, WSJ, 11 Apr. 2019
  • Talented entrepreneurs like Austen should leaf through an unabridged history of fast-growing education businesses that don’t deliver on promises to students.
    — Ryan Craig, Forbes, 28 May 2021
  • While some commercials are clearly trimmed for the sake of funnier supercuts (and there are some very amusing ads here), most play out unabridged and with otherwise nothing else in the way of additional tampering by the filmmakers.
    — Josh Slater-Williams, IndieWire, 17 Aug. 2024
  • Lynch tells the very complete and unabridged story of her childhood in the housing projects of South Boston and her rise as a top chef in the city, capturing some of the most delightful and truly terrible things that can happen in life.
    — Barbara Lynch, Bon Appetit, 5 Apr. 2017
  • The release, by publisher Naxos AudioBooks, is the first commercially available unabridged recording.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 14 June 2021

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